Zexion Chronicles I: XIII Thoughts
Chapter IV: Vexen, The Chilly Academic
Vexen... quite a lot to say actually about him.
Loves science and reading.
Challenges me to chess.
Hates Axel... and fire.
Likes feeling cold.
Controls ice.
Talkative.
Hates anything childish.
Hates music.
Looks old, but is young.
Avoids fighting.
And experiments on me... but i don't mind.
Well obviously he loves science. Apart from reading, its all he likes.
It was him who got me interested in science, but i would really like to know what interested him in it.
But although he likes asking others questions, he does not like being asked questions back.
Vexen is the smartest of Organization XIII, then followed by Xemnas and then me.
It his our minds that bind the 13 of us together... a little like life support systems.
Science can do such wonders... to Vexen anyway.
If there is something he does not understand, he will just keep hacking away until it cracks, much like Saix in battle.
It is on rare ocasions that he comes out of his lab and if he does, he will do one of the following.
1. Eat.
2. Sleep.
3. Challenge me to chess.
4. Talk to Xemnas.
But mostly it is for chess. Vexen and i are completely even at it. I win, he wins, i win again, he wins again and so on.
I'm hoping to at least beat him three times in a row, but to no avail.
I have always wondered how well fire and ice go together... but now i know the truth and it results in tsunamis all the time.
The words fire and ice, i have heard them go together so many times like 2 sides of the same coin. How wrong was i.
In the few times that Vexen is seen talking with Axel, a flood is sure to follow.
Like always it went in a pattern. Vexen asks Axel a question, Axel gets mad and starts fighting, Vexen defends.
And obviously when fire and ice collide, water is created. A lot of it. Thank god Demyx didn't have his surfboard with him.
It is after these fights that everyone can see how much Vexen hates Axel.
Why that red head blows up at questions is beyond me... i will have to look into it.
And as for his element, ice, it can be very helpful and annoying.
Vexen always likes his body covered in the coldness of ice. I do not know why he would like it, he must need warmth.
But secretly, i thin he is angry that his element is ice. I'm sure he would rather be warm than cold. He must envy Axel.
Apart from that, he seems to like ice. It helps him a great deal in his experiments for which he is greatful.
It certainly helps him when Demyx gets on his bad side. After all, water and ice are the same thing.
And despite the fact that he does not like being bothered, he is quite talkative. Just to the original six.
He, Lexeaus and myself often have conversations in his lab which can last for hours on end.
Axel sometimes calls us the three musketeers, which ends with him getting a mouthful of rocks and getting trapped in ice.
Just because we get along well doesn't mean we stick together like real musketeers do.
Aside from myself and Lexeaus, Vexen will only talk to the others suck as Xemnas, Xigbar and Xaldin if he has questions.
Xemnas more than the other two, who tend to give him a life story more than a simple answer.
There is also another reason he hates Axel. How childish he acts.
I don't think Axel is completely childish, he can be a real fearless man when he needs to be, but i think he likes being a child.
Why else would he act like one? Vexen would love to know the answer to that question.
He sometimes told me that Axel does it for attention. Maybe to him having attention feels like he is someone.
I don't know... Vexen just says how stupid it is.
The scientist also hates music as much as Xaldin, preferring silence over sound.
Demyx is another one i pity. If he had someone who like music too he wouldn't get hurt so many times each day.
Its obvious that music corrupts Vexen's mind, making him unable to think... another reason why he hates that sound.
He might be a little confusing... but what is really puzzling is his looks.
To me he looks young and old at the same time, with two age lines that are almost invisible across his face.
They are almost invisible and still they make him look old despite him being around 21. Looks can be deciving can't they?
Looks... when you look at him you would think he is a scrawny "nerd" as Roxas calls him that doesn't talk to a lot of people.
But on the battlefield, that changes. Ice is a powerful element indeed.
He is good at long range like Xigbar, being able to trap an enemy in a coffin of ice that can cause death. summoning pillars if ice from the ground to pierce anything like Xaldin's lances, and last being able to make it hail.
He is one of the best at causing fatal injuries.
And his weapon, a large blue shield that fully protects him.
Not even he knows what it is made of as it cannot be broken by anything. Well apart from Saix and Lexeaus.
It would takee a true powerhouse to shatter his shield... makes me wonder if Xemnas could make it crumble.
And last... Vexen's line of test subjects. Not as long as you would think.
His fist subject was Xaldin who always got bored, but then it became me after no time at all.
I'm not sure what Vexen is aiming for... all his potions do such strange things.
One made me fall asleep for a whole day.
One made me burp bubbles... that was... awful.
One made me vomit... on him...
One made me go into a berserk rage... which led to me picking a fight with the mother of all rage... Saix.
And the last one made me hyper. I felt lik i needed to run a marathon and it took Lexeaus and Saix to hold me down.
But i don't mind... if it helps Vexen... it helps all of us.
And in the family tree... i would say Vexen is a close cousin...